Guide

Guideis to lead or direct someone or something in a way; to conduct in a course or path. A person who leads travelers or tourists through unknown or unfamiliar locations is known as aguide.The term can also be applied to a person who leads others to more abstract goals such as knowledge or wisdom.

Quotes

• O vitæ philosophia dux!
  • Ophilosophy,life’s guide!
  • Cicero,Tusc. Quæst,Book V. 2. 5. Reported inHoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations(1922), p. 596-97.

• ByhandEntenguided the spring floods, the abundance andlifeof the Land, down from the edge of thehills.He set his foot upon the Tigris and Euphrates like abigbull and released them into the fields and fruitful acres ofEnlil.He shaped lagoons in the water of thesea.He let fish and birds together come intoexistenceby the sea.
  • Debate between Winter and Summer(mid to late3rd millennium BCE).[1]

• It is better to guidepeoplethan try to hammer them into a line.
  • Morgase Trakand inThe Shadow Rising(15 September 1992), written byRobert Jordan.

• You mustsurrenderbefore you can guide.
  • Theodrin Dabei to Nynaeve al'Meara inLord of Chaos(15 October 1994), written byRobert Jordan.

• Experience, next, to thee I owe,
  Best guide; not following thee, I had remain'd
  In ignorance; thou open'st wisdom's way,
  And giv'st access, though secret she retire.
  • John Milton,Paradise Lost(1667; 1674), Book VIII, line 807.

• Philosophy... molds and constructs the soul; it orders our life, guides our conduct, shows us what we should do and what we should leave undone; it sits at the helm and directs our course as we waver amid uncertainties.
  • Seneca the Younger,Moral Letters,R. Gummere, trans. (1917).